This webinar is part of the SEEA Webinar series “Uses of the SEEA for Policy, developed with the aim to highlight various priority and/or emerging policy areas that can be informed by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).
The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA.
As the world grapples with numerous global challenges, including environmental issues, climate change, health crises, food insecurity, economic recovery, and human displacement, the need for knowledge integration has never been more critical. Amid a data landscape with fast-increasing volumes of data, information remains compartmentalised to pre-defined scales and fields, rarely building its way up to collective knowledge.
This is the first webinar of the webinar series on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA). This webinar aims at providing a foundational understanding of the SEEA and how the SEEA can support national implementation of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
The Global Policy Forum on Natural Capital is the signature annual event of the G
The event "New challenges for national statistical offices for environment and climate change statistics: Role of the SEEA" is organized jointly by the UNCEEA, UNSD and the IMFas a side event of the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). The event will be held on Tuesday , 27 February 2023, from 13:15 to 13:30 in Conference Room A in the Conference Building of the United Nations in New York.
The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group of the United Nations Statistical Commission established in 1993 to provide a forum for practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of the London group are experts primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), in collaboration with the National Statistics Bureau of Bhutan (NSB) are organizing a National Training Workshop on the SEEA Central Framework. The workshop will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan from 31 October to 3 November 2023 and will be conducted in English.
Background
This webinar will provide participants an overview of the purpose and importance of the Global Assessment of Environmental Economic Accounting and Supporting Statistics. This year the Statistics Division of the United Nations will administer a benchmark assessment, which will provid
